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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nabokov reveal about his mind?
(a) He always associates sounds with colors.
(b) He has depression.
(c) He has a great short-term memory.
(d) He hallucinates.

2. What would change throughout Nabokov's childhood, depending on the prevailing advice of the family's current medical consultant?
(a) The temperature of the bath water.
(b) The temperature in his home.
(c) How much he exercises.
(d) The medicines his mother uses.

3. Of what are Nabokov's memories in a Russian setting?
(a) A quite Russian childhood.
(b) A quite English childhood.
(c) A quite French childhood.
(d) A quite German childhood.

4. What is memorable about this first memory?
(a) He wonders where his parents are.
(b) He understands that everyone must eat.
(c) He realizes he has the ability to control his own body.
(d) He understands that he is a separate being from his father and mother.

5. To what is Nabokov's mother quite sensitive?
(a) Perfume.
(b) Insect bites.
(c) Insults.
(d) Seemingly small events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this thriving upper-class tourist industry offer?

2. Though many doubt this ailment, What happens to Ivanovich?

3. What are two events that Nabokov remembers watching outside his mother's window?

4. To what does the memory of the bracelet lead?

5. What is their mother's reaction when she sees that her children have opened the presents from their stockings early and poorly rewrapped them?

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